Helen De Cruz

Helen De Cruz

@helendecruz.net

Philosopher writing on science, religion, SFF, SFWA, Codex, lute music. newsletter: http://helendecruz.substack.com website: https://helendecruz.net/ My book Wonderstruck - https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232126/wonderstruck

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Helen De Cruz
@helendecruz.net

Our qualitative study with natural scientists on ultimate reality has been published. We look at the influence of religious background and disciplinary field, as well as inspiration from humanities. Care for the planet an enduring concern. Read it open access here! Thank you to participants

cambridge.orgThe restaurant at the beginning of the universe: Natural scientists on ultimate reality, science, and religion | Religious Studies | Cambridge CoreThe restaurant at the beginning of the universe: Natural scientists on ultimate reality, science, and religion
Helen De Cruz
@helendecruz.net

Dear all, Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers. pt. 1/2

Helen De Cruz
@helendecruz.net

pt. 2/2 You all brought them happiness and an emotional outlet throughout their sickness with your kind words and the platform you provided them. Her husband and children

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Jennifer Tackett
@jnfrltackett.bsky.social

This is a beautiful reflection on the way we characterize others and the importance of the idiographic in that. Brings me back to my Allport roots. Most elegant integration of personality is the nomothetic-idiographic for me.

Helen De Cruz@helendecruz.net

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

helendecruz.substack.comCan’t take it with youI am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.
Helen De Cruz
@helendecruz.net

What is wild to me is that humans until industrialization would have two blocks of sleep. After a first sleep of some hours they would wake up and do stuff: visit friends, have sex, a small meal etc. And then they'd turn back in for a second longer sleep. So don't worry if you wake in the night.

Helen De Cruz
@helendecruz.net

Brilliant paper about this philarchive.org/rec/PROTVO-2....

philarchive.orgSara Protasi, The Value of Sleeping - PhilArchiveShould you take a pill that gives you all the health benefits of sleep and allows you to stay awake? I argue that you shouldn’t. I propose three reasons why sleeping, ...
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

also being a dad has made me realize how precious sleep and how deeply and utterly correct every tired parent was when they made some version of that "sleep while you can haha" joking advice before the kiddo arrived

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Marylin Delgado
@philosophypills.bsky.social

A Manifesto for a Future Philosophy by @helendecruz.net #philsky

Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com

"This project of re-envisaging, looking at past ideas, and developing new ones to deal with our difficult situation will take the work of many people."

dailynous.comA Manifesto for a Future Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous"This project of re-envisaging, looking at past ideas, and developing new ones to deal with our difficult situation will take the work of many people..." The following is a guest post by Helen de Cruz...

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Kurt Busiek
@kurtbusiek.bsky.social

Book concept: People start finding books in a Little Free Library that were never written or published in this world. Some are exactly what the "borrower" needs. Some are a delight. But some are dangerous. And the Little Free Library just might have a sinister agenda...

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Mediasres
@medias-res.bsky.social

This story had me tearing up its true. Almost long sobs at one point & then they passed and fell into something else, a calm. I encountered Helen a time ago when she began live-tweeting out her first-time reading of ALL of Spinoza, down to the letters, and I was swept away by her reception of him.

Helen De Cruz@helendecruz.net

open.substack.com/pub/helendec... self publishing this Goofy space drama structure around Spinoza 's ethics

open.substack.comBlessednessStory publishing is a long road.
Helen De Cruz
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We were in the eye of a tornado. A maga truck tried in vain to get out but to no avail. Then he got a chainsaw and began to slice his way out. A suburban mom said ' at least they're good for something '

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Nerine Dorman
@nerinedorman.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to @xanwriter.bsky.social, the winner of the 2024 South African Horrorfest Bloody Parchment short story competition with "Splinters of the Schism." Runners-up are Brett Rex Bruton for "The Hand on the Door" and Dera Udochukwu for "Alkaline Water". Link below for more info....

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Please scream inside your heart
@greeneyedsoandso.bsky.social

The Incandescent! Just finished this and needed to run and tell everyone to read this book. If you want to get the foul taste of JKR out of your mouth, this is it. About adults, for adults, standalone, absolutely brilliant world-building, beautifully observed character writing, and slyly funny. ❤️

Emily Tesh@emilytesh.net

THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now! US: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/unti...

Helen De Cruz
@helendecruz.net

Still my fave music video i made

Helen De Cruz@helendecruz.net

Ok trying the video upload feature--a Sephardic tune on the baroque lute, Siete Modos de Guisar las Berenjenas (seven ways to prepare eggplants, only two ways are discussed bc we're at 60 seconds).